ICU Management & Practice, Volume 18 - Issue 2, 2018
This article reviews the RRT system concept and provides an update on the current state of such systems, their challenges, their performance, the evidence supporting their usefulness and their evolution.
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Concept of failure to rescue
Epidemiology of serious adverse events
Warning signs
Responding to abnormal vital signs
Key principles
Rapid response team-based system
Triggering criteria
RRT composition
Interventions and outcomes
How to make a RRT work
Controversies
Conclusions
Conflict of interest
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